Designed to benefit Students, Teachers and Key Stakeholders in the Childhood Obesity Epidemic.

Interdisciplinary approach to wellness, empowering adolescents to

Make Healthy Choices

Meets educational objectives and needs of teachers and administrators without creating "more work".

More than just a curriculum

Behavior Modification

Engages students to become healthier and, provides real-time data to stakeholders.

What isMATCH?

MATCH is an interdisciplinary approach to wellness that empowers adolescents to make healthy choices. Focusing on nutrition education and increasing physical activity, MATCH produces sustainable improvement in weight status now and, years later.

More thanjust a Curriculum

MATCH is not only a behavior modification program that engages students to become healthier, but is also a data management system - key to ensuring fidelity and providing stakeholders with real-time data for decision making.

One Solutionfor All

MATCH meets the educational objectives and needs of our teachers and administrators without creating "more work", while achieving wellness outcomes in students - creating a win-win for all!

About MATCH

Motivating Adolescents with Technology to CHOOSE Health is a teacher-developed interdisciplinary approach to student wellness that integrates physical activity, nutrition, and technology education.

Positive returns on investment.

What do teachers think of MATCH?

What do teachers think of MATCH?

Professionals Say

MATCH Proponents Quotes

"The consistent measured outcomes with decreases in weight status among young adolescents after MATCH participation, and the sustained improvements into the high school years, suggest a powerful potential of the program to improve health and reduce healthcare costs."

Robin G. Cummings, M.D.

Former State of North Carolina Deputy Secretary for Medicaid and Interim State Health Director

"MATCH has demonstrated effect on improving weight status of participants into the High School years, notably the only school-based intervention with sustained effectiveness."

Rear Admiral Penelope Slade-Sawyer

USPHS, Retired

"Based upon the detailed assessments and overall ratings by the two expert reviewers, MATCH met the established review criteria for research-tested interventions."

Alice Ammerman DRPH

Director, Center for Health Promotion and Disease PreventionProfessor, Deptartment of Nutrition Gillings School of Global Public Health and School of Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"The students impacted by MATCH live in areas of our state with the highest poverty and greatest health disparity, and most obesogenic environments. From our perspective, success here translates to success anywhere…"

Jennifer Zuckerman

Former Director of Strategic Partnerships The Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation

"The Trust (Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust) has made investment in MATCH for one key reason: it works... Few programs have demonstrated this level of results for the investment."

Jehan Benton-Clark

Former Senior Program Officer Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust

"...it is very important when we find programs that work, that we figure out how we can replicate it."

Shellie Y. Pfohl, MS

Former Director of the President Obama's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition